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"That's t-true; b-b-business is b-business," said the cooper. "B-b-but, st-still, you know, it is d-d-difficult. I h-have n-no m-m-money and n-no t-t-time." "Yes, but you need not undertake it. I will see the creditors and talk with them and get an extension of time, and everything can be arranged if you will add something to the assets so as to buy up all title to the debts."
"B-b-but what's to be d-d-done with this p-p-pretty thing?" demanded Toby, pointing as he spoke to their prisoner, who was sitting outside the door, having one of his ankles held fast with a trailing rope, so that he could not run away, even if tempted to do so; which, considering his helpless condition, with both hands tied behind his back, he was hardly in the humor to do.
'B-b-but with our party, as your brother said, "heading straight for a vast electoral disaster," and the Liberals 'If I decide on a counter-blast, I shall simply telegraph to headquarters. Good-bye. 'Oh! A a good-bye. With a gesture of 'the country's going to the dogs, Farnborough opened the doors and closed them behind him. Jean had rung the bell.
"Lily, I don't think Thunder and guns!" said Maurice, leaping to his feet and rubbing his ankle; "Lily, call him off! The little wretch put his teeth into me!" Lily, horrified, slapped her son, who explained, bawling, "Well, b-b-but he didn't let on he heard me tellin' him that I " "I felt you," Maurice said, laughing; "Gosh, Lily! He's cut his eyeteeth I'll say that for him!"
"Because then I will have some idea who would be enough interested in the envelope to steal it." Helen considered him long and thoughtfully. "I cannot answer your question," she announced finally. She saw his face harden, and hastened to explain. "Not through any lack of confidence in you, Harry, b-b-but," she stumbled in her speech. "I I do not know what the envelope contains."
I never had time to think. T-t-t-th-there's always so much doin'," answered Monty. Yet, following Katharine's rapturous gaze skyward, his own blue eyes had filled with dreamy speculation, and he began to picture to himself the wonders of that world beyond Marsden village which he meant sometime to find. "B-b-but I'll tell you somethin', Katy Maitland. I'm not goin' to stay here always.
But we often have morning fogs and I have seen several almost as dense as this." "Nothing unusual in a fog d-d-down hereabouts and along the river," Flexinna admitted. "B-B-But this fog is most unusual. It is all over the whole city. I have lived on the Esquiline ever since I was b-b-born and I never saw a fog up there except p-p-perhaps a whiff just about sunrise and then only in wisps.
I I I wanted to get to the island; b-b-but I can't go any further as the raft is stuck, and and I've lost my stick to push it with. Oh I was nearly over there!"
I am going to Paris on business of my own, and I can take charge of " "We'll see about t-t-trying to m-m-manage it b-b-between us, under the p-p-peculiar c-c-circumstances, b-b-but without b-b-binding m-m-myself to anything th-that I c-c-could not do," said Grandet, stuttering; "because, you see, monsieur le president naturally expects me to pay the expenses of his journey."
So 'fraid I I can't hardly think nor feel nothin'. B-b-but I'm going!" His ruddy cheeks were now colorless save where the freckles spotted them, and his great eyes seemed to have grown in size; but though there was piteous terror in their blue depths there was no flinching from the duty. It took him a long time to button his jacket and adjust his cap.
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